{"id":21088,"date":"2026-06-24T11:28:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21088"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:33:37","slug":"helping-the-poor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21088","title":{"rendered":"Helping the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" data-attachment-id=\"21090\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=21090\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8687.jpeg?fit=1500%2C1125&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1125\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1697831757&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.25&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_8687\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8687.jpeg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8687.jpeg?resize=700%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21090\" style=\"width:481px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8687.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8687.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8687.jpeg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8687.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8687.jpeg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8687.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cI think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benjamin Franklin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franklin wrote this when there was scarcity. Now we are in a time of surplus and the sentiment may need to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this is a night skyline of Chicago photo. I could look it up but it is not critical path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.\u201d Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[1606,619,139,61,314],"class_list":["post-21088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","category-politics","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-boat","tag-change","tag-maxim","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8687.jpeg?fit=1500%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5u8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21091,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088\/revisions\/21091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}